Recaps

Xiao Ling inherited Qing Zhi’s Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, represented Starfall Pavilion at the Four Directions Pavilion Conference, and helped Mu Qingluan win the tournament. He then brought Feng Qing’er under his control and traveled to Sacred Pill City to support the Ye Family, where his Soul Value stunned the Pill Gathering assessment.

• Xiao Ling survived Qing Zhi’s trial, received the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art and Heavenly Dragon Qi, and reunited with Rayquaza after Zi Yan and Medusa defeated two magical beasts.
• Xiao Ling attended the Four Directions Pavilion Conference, where Xiao Yan and Lin Yan advanced through the first round before Wang Chen’s attack on Lin Yan prompted Mu Qingluan to intervene and Yellow Springs Venerable to leave.
• Mu Qingluan defeated Feng Qing’er in the final with the Dragon Soul Slaying Phoenix Sword, winning the tournament for Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling sent his companions back to Starfall Pavilion, ordered Qing Hai, Earth Demon, and Fei Tian to destroy Yellow Springs Pavilion, then seized Feng Qing’er and took her back with him.
• Xiao Ling agreed to pose as the Ye Family’s prospective son-in-law for its assessment and traveled with Ye Zhong, Ye Xinlan, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Medusa to Sacred Pill City.
• At the assessment, Dan Chen scored 1804 Soul Value and Cao Ying scored 1995 before Xiao Ling controlled his Soul Power and stopped his score at 3799, shocking the crowd.

Xiao Ling won the Five Great Families assessment, prepared for the Pill Gathering, and gathered rare ingredients in the Pill Realm with Zi Yan. When Soul Hall attacked Cao Ying and the other contestants, Xiao Ling rescued them and stayed behind to fight Venerable Mu Gu and the Soul Hall elders.

• Xiao Ling won the Soul Manipulation assessment with 521 beads, then defeated Cao Ying and Dan Chen in the final Soul Power fight, securing first place for the Ye Family.
• Xiao Ling found Spirit Nurturing Dust in a copper fragment, gave some to Cao Ying, and learned from Xuan Kongzi that Soul Hall planned to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xun'er reunited with Xiao Ling in Sacred Pill City, and he entered the Pill Gathering's Soul Illusion Realm, passing first after rejecting its false visions.
• Xiao Ling entered the Pill Realm with Zi Yan, gathered the required ingredients and rare treasures, and defeated Xiong Zhan before befriending him and trading for medicinal herbs and Pill Spirit Sap.
• Xiao Ling sensed Soul Hall attacking Cao Ying and the other contestants, then rushed to their location with Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan.
• Venerable Mu Gu attacked the trapped contestants, killed Song Qing, and threatened Cao Ying and Dan Chen before Xiao Ling arrived and blocked his strike.
• Xiao Ling sent Cao Ying and the other survivors through a Spatial Tunnel, then summoned twelve Sky Demon Puppets to fight the four Venerable Elders.
• Xiao Ling identified the Nihility Devouring Flame protecting Venerable Mu Gu and used Illusory Dream Spirit Shadow to leave him dazed as a Sky Demon Puppet prepared to strike.

Xiao Ling returned from the Pill Realm, absorbed the Void Devouring Flame Sub-flame, and won the Pill Gathering with a Nine-Colored Eighth-grade pill. After the victory, he received an invitation to enter the Star Region and bid farewell to Xun'er as she returned to the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Ling brought Cao Ying and Dan Chen out of the Pill Realm, joined by Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan, and Xuan Kongzi counted their assessments as passed.
• Xiao Ling captured and refined Venerable Mu Gu's Void Devouring Flame Sub-flame with help from the Ancestral Stone, breaking through to Five-star Dou Zun with Chu Wanqing's aid.
• Xiao Ling began refining the Reincarnation Soul Sculpting Pill in the Pill Gathering's final contest while Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Xiao Yan prepared their own pills.
• Xiao Ling completed a high-tier Eighth-grade pill that summoned Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and Little Sable defeated the lightning to let the pill finish forming.
• Xuan Kongzi declared Xiao Ling the Pill Gathering champion, awarded him the Taigu Soul Forging Art, and announced that the top ten contestants could enter the Star Region to seek Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian left with Yao Chen without meeting Xiao Ling, while Xun'er told Xiao Ling she had to return to the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Ling gave Xun'er a Calamity Fire Fruit, and Elder Tong Xuan took her through a Spatial Tunnel after she invited Xiao Ling to her Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Chu Wanqing met Xiao Ling after Xun'er left, and the two went to a private tavern room to drink and talk.

Xiao Ling subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, strengthened his ties with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, and brought Little Sable and his companions back to Starfall Pavilion. The arc ended with Xiao Ling reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian on Ling Yue Peak.

• Xiao Ling joined the Little Pill Tower, prepared with the Pill Gathering finalists, and entered the Star Region to face the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Ling convinced the Three Thousand Burning Flame to follow him, then spent two and a half months refining it and emerged at Seven-star Dou Zun.
• After Little Sable revived as a Half-Saint, Xiao Ling gave Cao Ying and Dan Chen Talisman Master inheritances and began teaching them the method.
• Dan Chen and Cao Ying both grew closer to Xiao Ling, and Xiao Ling became intimate with each of them.
• Xiao Ling joined Zi Yan, Medusa, Qing Lin, and Little Sable to test the completed Spatial Teleportation Array and return to the Sky Star Mountain Range.
• Little Sable accepted Yao Chen’s invitation to stay at Starfall Pavilion, while Xiao Ling gave Yao Chen a flame talisman inheritance and proposed teaching the cultivation method there.
• Xiao Ling returned to Ling Yue Peak, where Xiao Yi Xian greeted him and embraced him.